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Behavior analysis
Behavior analysis is an approach to psychology that concerns itself primarily with observing, analysing and attempting to understand and predict the way humans behave and interact.
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functional stimulus
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The properties of a stimulus that control behavior, as opposed to the properties of the nominal stimulus (e.g., for a pigeon attending to the color but not the form of a green circle, the functional ...
goal
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The intended outcome of an intervention. Behavioral goals usually are presented as a statement of the direction and extent to which the target behavior is to be changed. Increased, decreased, ...
emission
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The occurrence of operant behavior. A response that occurs without an eliciting stimulus is said to be emitted. The term applies to responding occasioned by a discriminative stimulus as well as to ...
house light
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The light responsible for the general illumination in the experimental box.
encoding
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The learner's behavior with respect to the item to be remembered at the time it is presented.
horizontal axis
Psychology; Behavior analysis
The horizontal line at the bottom of a graph. Also called the x-axis or abscissa.
